2010-08-08

Waves crashing against the shore

That's annoying. Google has opted to discontinue Google Wave, amusingly due to a lack of user interest. Really? You might think they'd get it into a usable state before balking at the lack of user interest.

I know some people have had more luck than I with it. However, I was really looking forward to it reaching a state where

it wouldn't consume all my systems' resources if I left it open in a tab for half an hour

it would stop crashing when I tried to post messages, causing me to lose my hard work

it would stop failing to sync interminably without my realising it wasn't syncing for the last 20 minutes (causing me to lose all my work; data loss Is Evil)

they'd abandon that annoying, clumsy vertical scroll method

my user icon would stop getting lost, along with my friends

I could actually manage basic user functionality like removing someone from a wave

they'd actually notify me of updates to waves in real time rather than 2 hours later

advertised functionality like inserting images and videos would actually work

it goes on

I mean, Google Wave has encompassed many good ideas. Yes, Google Wave itself is somewhat directionless and lacks identity, but that is a separate problem. I am annoyed at their giving up because people like me weren't using it while it was in a state where it was unusable to people like me. Argh.